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Quantum defect embedding theory (QDET) is a many-body embedding method designed to describe condensed systems with correlated electrons localized within a given region of space, for example spin defects in semiconductors and insulators.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-28 Siyuan Chen , Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Yu Jin , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

Quantum embedding based on the (one-electron reduced) density matrix is revisited by means of the unitary Householder transformation. While being exact and equivalent to (but formally simpler than) density matrix embedding theory (DMET) in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-12 Sajanthan Sekaran , Masahisa Tsuchiizu , Matthieu Saubanère , Emmanuel Fromager

Accurately and efficiently predicting the equilibrium geometries of large molecules remains a central challenge in quantum computational chemistry, even with hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. Two major obstacles hinder progress: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yajie Hao , Qiming Ding , Xiaoting Wang , Xiao Yuan

We describe a formulation of the density matrix embedding theory at finite temperature. We present a generalization of the ground-state bath orbital construction that embeds a mean-field finite-temperature density matrix up to a given order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-04 Chong Sun , Ushnish Ray , Zhi-Hao Cui , Miles Stoudenmire , Michel Ferrero , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Quantum computers can accurately compute ground state energies using phase estimation, but this requires a guiding state that has significant overlap with the true ground state. For large molecules and extended materials, it becomes…

Quantum embedding methods have become a powerful tool to overcome deficiencies of traditional quantum modelling in materials science. However, while these are systematically improvable in principle, in practice it is rarely possible to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-02 Max Nusspickel , George H. Booth

Embedded density functional theory (e-DFT) is used to describe the electronic structure of strongly interacting molecular subsystems. We present a general implementation of the Exact Embedding (EE) method [J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084103 (2010)]…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-27 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Thomas F. Miller

Localized orbital-based quantum embedding, as originally formulated in the context of density matrix embedding theory (DMET), is revisited from the perspective of lattice density functional theory (DFT). An in-principle exact (in the sense…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 W. Makhlouf , B. Senjean , E. Fromager

We present a density-matrix embedding theory (DMET) study of the one-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model, which is paradigmatic for the interplay of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. Analyzing the single-particle excitation…

The combination of deep learning and ab initio materials calculations is emerging as a trending frontier of materials science research, with deep-learning density functional theory (DFT) electronic structure being particularly promising. In…

The basic idea of Frozen-Density Embedding Theory (FDET) is the constrained minimisation of the Hohenberg-Kohn density functional $E^{HK}[\rho]$ performed using the auxiliary functional $E_{v_{AB}}^{FDET}[\Psi_A,\rho_B]$, where $\Psi_A$ is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Niccolò Ricardi , Michelle Ernst , Piero Macchi , Tomasz A. Wesolowski

In this work, we derive a multi-fragment real-time extension of projected density matrix embedding theory (pDMET) designed to treat non-equilibrium electron dynamics in strongly correlated systems. As in the previously developed static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-19 Dariia Yehorova , Joshua S. Kretchmer

Quantum simulations of metal surfaces are critical for catalytic innovation. Yet existing methods face a cost-accuracy dilemma: density functional theory is efficient but system-dependent in accuracy, while wavefunction-based theories are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Changsu Cao , Hung Q. Pham , Zhen Guo , Yutan Zhang , Zigeng Huang , Xuelan Wen , Ji Chen , Dingshun Lv

Quantum embedding is an appealing route to fragment a large interacting quantum system into several smaller auxiliary `cluster' problems to exploit the locality of the correlated physics. In this work we critically review approaches to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-19 Max Nusspickel , Basil Ibrahim , George H. Booth

We present a quantum embedding methodology to resolve the Anderson impurity model in the context of dynamical mean-field theory, based on an extended exact diagonalization method. Our method provides a maximally localized quantum impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-19 Carla Lupo , François Jamet , Terence Tse , Ivan Rungger , Cedric Weber

Accurate and efficient theoretical descriptions of lanthanide systems based on ab initio electronic structure theory remain highly challenging due to the complex interplay of strong electronic correlation and significant relativistic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yuhang Ai , Ze-Wei Li , Zhe-Bin Guan , Hong Jiang

By partitioning the electron density into subsystem contributions, the Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem DFT has recently emerged as a powerful tool for reducing the computational scaling of Kohn--Sham DFT. To date,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Genova , Davide Ceresoli , Michele Pavanello

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials to help mitigate the effects of global warming by selectively absorbing $\text{CO}_{2}$ for direct capture. Accurate quantum chemistry simulations are a useful tool to help select and…

Quantitative prediction of electronic properties in correlated materials requires simulations without empirical truncations and parameters. We present a method to achieve this goal through a new ab initio formulation of dynamical mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-08 Tianyu Zhu , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

The performance of embedding methods is directly tied to the quality of the bath orbitals construction. In this paper, we develop a versatile framework, enabling the investigation of the optimal construction of the orbitals of the bath. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-03 Quentin Marécat , Matthieu Saubanère